Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 2 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
| 3 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 4 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 5 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |
| 6 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 7 | For instance , the fine against a player ranked in the top 4 in the world has been increased five times from $20,000 to £100,000 . |
| 8 | To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 . |
| 9 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
| 10 | The group , which has been given 18 bins , is building setts to replace those dug-up by badger-baiters . |
| 11 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 12 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 13 | The vicar who keeps more than fifty animals in his garden has been given two weeks to get rid of them . |
| 14 | ‘ Much of it is , but Christian has been given fifty acres of forest land . |
| 15 | Strathaven-based Yuill and Dodds , which was due to have its licence suspended for seven days from midnight on Sunday , has been given 49 days ' grace to decide whether to appeal against the decision . |
| 16 | The company has been given 12 months to fit equipment to control discharges of the highly toxic chemical pentachlorophenol ( PCP ) . |
| 17 | And Altovar Limited has been given three months to pay the eight thousand pound fine . |
| 18 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 19 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 20 | This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament . |
| 21 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 22 | It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year . |
| 23 | THE eagerly-awaited reappearance of Champion hurdler Royal Gait has been delayed 24 hours until this afternoon due to the abandonment of yesterday 's meeting at Leopardstown . |
| 24 | A Bosnian art gallery , which has been bombed nine times since the civil war started , has been recreated in Cheltenham . |
| 25 | Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance . |
| 26 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 27 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 28 | That question has been answered three days running . |
| 29 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 30 | Time has stopped dead , and the single experience of one coin being spun one has been repeated ninety times … |